This morning in the shower, whilst singing "I don't know how to love him" (don't ask), I was struck by the similarities in the love triangles set up by Shakespeare, in Othello, and Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice in Jesus Christ, Superstar.

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus  is a mash-up of Gladiator, Troy, The 300, Xena and Braveheart (yeah, one of these things is not like the others, but there you are.).  It's stupid, it's offensive, and it's funny. Will Sasso plays the title character. *drool*  There's some nice chests, some chiseled 6-pack abs, and LOTS of bare ( Read more... )

A week or so ago, Alonso (moroccomole) made a facebook post about the film of New York Philharmonic along with Neil Patrick Harris as Bobby in Steven Sonheim's Company. I checked the website of the local indy/art-house theatre and saw that they were NOT showing it, so I figured I'd have to wait until a DVD release to see it. Then I followed the link to the ( Read more... )

Phil and I introduced some 20-somethings to John Waters movies this weekend. We started with Pecker, then showed them Pink Flamingos. They could handle Pecker just fine. (Let's face it, ever since John went "mainstream" with Hairspray, he lost his edge.) But they just couldn't handle Pink Flamingos.

One said, "This is worse than Human Centipede ( Read more... )

I watched the 2000 version of Love's Labours Lost, and was not impressed. The concept seems sound enough: turn Shakespeare's play into a 1930s movie musical. That would have been OK if most of the cast could really sing and dance. Things also seemed a bit choppy, telling great chunks of plot in "newsreel" footage.

Nathan Lane was fantastic in the ( Read more... )

I finally saw Jim Carrey's Christmas Carol ( Read more... )

We haven't been watching much over the past month or so because of other things going on. Mostly, we've been watching Dragonball Z.

Sherlock Holmes (2009) - I couldn't watch this under its own merits since I am currently reading through the Holmes canon. It wasn't bad, but the world really doesn't need a "reboot" of these late Victorian classics ( Read more... )

I just watched the wonderful B-movie Dinosaurus! (the exclamation point is part of the title ( Read more... )

I watched The Ghost and Mrs. Muir last night. I couldn't help myself. I giggled every time Rex Harrison mentioned "seamen".

I just watched this Ed Wood "Classic". While a lot of people call it one of the worst films ever made, I found it to be delightful. The whole "nightmare" sequence is right out of German Expressionism. That's ART, people ( Read more... )